See if you can find one of these interruptions. Every now and then, Christopher Robin (remember he’s listening to these stories!) interrupts his father (the storyteller) who switches from third-person back to the first-person to answer his son’s question before continuing on. Our narrator can see everything that is happening, how our characters are feeling, and what they are thinking. Remember, omniscient is just a fancy word that means ‘all knowing’. When we enter the woods, Milne switches to the role of an omniscient third-person narrator and jumps into the minds of Pooh, Piglet and others. “Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?”

“What about a story?” said Christopher Robin. Here he writes in the first-person as Christopher Robin asks him to tell a story and they talk about Pooh’s adventures: Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh as a story within a story! Isn’t that creative! Look at the beginning and end of the chapter. Did you notice anything unique about this story? Winnie-the-Pooh is actually a collection of stories, told by the author to his son Christopher. What an adventure! In this chapter we are introduced to our friends Winnie-the-Pooh and a young boy named Christopher Robin. The third-person limited narrator is written from the outside perspective but sticks to the view-point of one main character. An omniscient narrator is a fancy way of saying they are “all knowing” – they see everything that is happening or will happen and they can jump into each of the character’s mind to tell us what they’re experiencing.

This is divided into two main types: omniscient or limited. Lastly, in the third-person point of view the author tells the story as an outsider and calls the characters by name or as he, she, them, or they. It’s a great way to make us feel like we’re a part of the adventure. In the second-person point of view the narrator talks directly to ‘ you‘ as the reader. We get to see exactly what the character is doing, thinking and feeling. In the first-person point of view one of the main characters tells us the story and they use first person pronouns like I, me, my, or mine. There are three main types of point-of-view we can use: First-Person Point of View

Whenever we sit down to write, we have to decide who is telling the story and whom they’re telling it to. Imagine putting on someone’s glasses and being able to see the world through their eyes. This is the ‘lens’ through which we get to experience the tale. Every story is written from a certain point of view.

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